A furious Donald Trump has reportedly vowed to “beat the f--king s--t” out of Iran in retaliation for a surprise attack targeting U.S. forces in the Middle East.
Hours after Tehran launched a surprise ballistic missile attack against American forces in Jordan, the 80-year-old president was said to have offered one of his most profane public threats yet as the conflict spirals.
“We are going to beat the f--king s--t out of them,” he is said to have told Fox News correspondent Trey Yingst.
“We’ll be hitting them hard. They’re going to get a beating.”
Iran’s surprise attack took place after a short pause in hostilities.
Centcom said in a post on X that the attack originated from Iran, but all missiles were intercepted.
According to Trump, U.S. forces only had minutes to react before the incoming missiles reached their targets.
He told Fox he had personally reviewed video of the operation, describing how American personnel tracked the incoming missiles in real time and successfully intercepted them before they could hit.
But the president did not hold back in his message of retaliation, sending oil prices soaring at a time when many observers had hoped peace talks could finally pick up speed.
With the midterm elections in just 97 days, the escalation also lands at a politically perilous moment for Republicans.
While many GOP lawmakers have rallied behind the president’s hardline approach to Iran, an ongoing regional conflict risks deepening MAGA divisions within the party.
Democrats are also likely to seize on a prolonged war, rising costs and the growing death toll.
Since launching the war on February 28, at least 18 U.S. service members have been killed along with countless innocent Iranian civilians, while gas prices have soared due to the standoff in the Strait of Hormuz.
However, the administration does not appear to have an endgame, constantly oscillating between seeking peace and vowing to escalate.
“Trump alternates each hour from “they’re begging for a deal and I think we’re getting close” to “we are going to end their civilization” with mass bombings on civilian infrastructure,” said former Republican turned MeidasTouch editor Ron Filipkowski.
Trump told Fox on Wednesday that the U.S. had carried out coordinated airstrikes with Saudi Arabia against Iran-backed militias, which he described as “a cancer on the world.”
He also addressed his meeting in the Oval Office on Tuesday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, insisting the talks went well despite recent strains between the two leaders over strategy in confronting Iran and the broader regional conflict.
